Web Resources

Sharing Web Resources
UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_3951.html

Parenting Programs under UNICEF are relevant to my current professional development. UNICEF states in reference to parenting programs that all children have the need and the right to parenting. Parenting means providing continuous care and support so that a child may survive and thrive. Continuous care and support includes but is not limited to protection, nutrition, love, support group, good environment, opportunities to learn, a chance to develop, self-worth, cultural identity, and positive role models.

The article on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene was of interest to me. In the developing world 37% of the world’s population which is 2.5 billion people lack improved sanitation facilities and 780 million people still use unsafe water and sanitation. In many of these areas girls are denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities and women spend their day fetching water.

UNICEF believes that without WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), development is impossible).

UNICEF’s work is centered around  Global Economic Crisis and Recovery, Child Poverty and Disparities, Social Budgeting and Public Finance, Migration and Social Protection.

UNICEF has a global commitment to make a difference in the lives of children with HIV/AIDS. The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS leaders met in 2001. Goals were set in place to fight the epidemic.

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International Contacts

Getting to Know Your International Contacts

St. Thomas Virgin Island

It is good to have friends in distant places. I have a special friend named Sheila who attended college with me at Morgan State University in 1972. Because Sheila had to travel so far and because of finances she was only able to go home once a year and that was during the summer. I would invite Sheila to come home with me on holidays and weekends whenever I went home.

Sheila and I have had a long distance lasting friendship for 40 years and I consider her my best friend. Sheila graduated in the education field and is now retired from school. I contacted her about my class assignment and she directed me to two of her sorority sisters who are AKA. My first contact person is Lucinda who is a first grade to third grade teacher and Lucille who teaches kindergarten.

 Columbia, South America

My other international contact is Diana who is from Columbia South American. She has taught grades 1 – 3. Diana has shared with me that her country is very poor and that poverty is greater in Columbia South American than in the United States. Due to poverty there are diseases from people not eating right. Diana also stated that the children in her country have a snack period and one hour for lunch. There are no cafeterias the children eat on the play ground. Lunch is only provided from the school for children who are very poor and have no food for lunch. All other children are required to bring their lunch from home. In Columbia students are required to wear school uniforms, the girls are not allowed to wear pants they must wear skirts, and the boys wear dark pants and white shirts. If a child’s family cannot afford uniforms then other parents donate clothing to the needed children. Overall America is a blessed country, others can see that we are a blessed country, sometimes we can’t see how blessed we are because we are so busy looking at what we don’t have instead of being thankful for what we do have.   

 

UNICEF

UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html is the organization that I chose. I found this site to be user friendly and the statement that first appears “We are the leading advocate for children's rights, active in more than 190 countries and territories through country programs and national committees, states exactly what the site is about.

Since I have a special interest in Jamaica I chose to view one of their current issues. Jaevion Nelson, author of an editorial advocacy network on child rights in the Jamaica Observer is a member of the Jamaican Youth Network. In this article Nelson discusses that two decades ago (1989) world leaders made a historic agreement through the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) which acknowledges that government caregivers and state holders must respect, promote and fulfill the rights of all children within the society.

International Contacts

Establishing Professional Contact

Jamaica and Australia

Hi Everyone,
This has really been a trying week for me. This is my 4th class here with Walden evrything has changed and I guess is sort of caught me off guard. Still not to sure that I am on the right track but I am going to hang in there. I chose the country Jamaica because I have had the opportunity to visit Falmouth and Trelawney Jamaica. While in Jamaica I also was able to visit their elementary school. I was fascinated with the uniforms that all the children wore and how much they valued education. Here in the United States our children sit down in air conditioned rooms and eat in nice cafeterias. In Jamaica there are no air conditioners and no cafeterias atleast not at the school I visited. Our children are bused or transported short distances to school in Jamaica I saw children walking for long distances.  I chose Australia because I want to learn more about their country. I did make an attempt to e-mail with no success through the UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html. My plans are to try again before I chose to take the alternative route

Harlem Children’s Zone

The organization that I will explore is Harlem Children’s Zone. From the age 12 years old to 18 years old I spent almost every weekend on 125^th in Harlem New York. As a child growing up I looked forward to going into New York City everyweekend. I was raised on Long Island nothing like the city. I remember seeing children jumping double dutch for countless hours, playing handball off the wall of a building, jumping hop scotch, watching a parade, looking at all the bright lights, passing the Appollo, eating hot dogs from the hot dog stand, waiting for the Good Humor ice cream truck to come by, getting wet playing in the Johnny Pump(fire hydrant), having fun at the partk, and eating the best pizza I have ever had. I can't leave out the homeless sleeping on the street, and those that are hungry looking in trash cans for food. There was violence, stealing,vandelism, old abandon building lots and lots of yellow cab drivers. As a child growing up in Harlem I loved it.

 

Harlem Children's Zone
http://www.hcz.org/
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